The Rev. Jonathan A. Crawford, vicar of Ascension, Hayward, WI, died April 14 of liver failure at the age of 47.

Fr. Crawford was born in Port Sulphur, LA. He was educated at Louisiana Technical University, Northwestern University of Louisiana, the University of Wyoming and Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He was ordained priest in 1983. Fr. Crawford served the Diocese of Wyoming as curate of St. Mark's, Casper, as youth minister, and as a member of the ecclesiastical court and the liturgics and music committee. He also served at St. Stephen's, Miami, FL, and was a member of the Constitution and Canons Committee of the Diocese of Southeast Florida. In 1988, he sat on the diocesan council for the Diocese of Eau Claire and later became dean of the Brule-Flambeau Deanery. He had served as vicar of Ascension, Hayward, WI, since 1987. Fr. Crawford is survived by his mother and one sister.